Re: Installing gnat in Linux

[Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>]

Scott Ingram <scott@silver.jhuapl.edu> writes:

> Larry Kilgallen wrote:
> > 
> > In article <35A00842.61153584@cl.cam.ac.uk>, Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk> writes:
> 
> > > There is no need to recompile GNAT on any Linux version. The binary
> > > version on <ftp://cs.nyu.edu/pub/gnat/> work on any Linux distribution,
> > 
> > The only binary versions I saw there just now are for I386 and I486.
> > 
> > Nothing for Alpha, Sun. etc.
> > 
> > Am I misunderstanding the NYU naming convention, or should the quoted
> > statement be qualified as only applying to Intel ?
> > 
> > Larry Kilgallen
>
> No there are indeed binaries for Alpha (OSF 3.2 and 4.0) and Sun,
> Solaris and Irix there.  Depending on your ftp client, it may be
> easier to pick out the binaries with a command like "ls
> *.bin.tar.gz," which shows me only the binaries.

Linux is available on Alpha, SPARC ant other platforms, but GNAT is
not available off-the-shelf for Linux on those other platforms.